St. Paul daily globe., 1887-05-07


sitting there debating the question whether II
little revenue officer or United States mar
shal shall be kept in Office under the civil
service rules and right where they are doing
IL there are thousand wonderland five thou
sand children being evicted and turned ont
| of their houses and homes by this damnable
liquor traffic. Yet nothing said about civil
service reform TO keep them in their house.
Out upon siatesmanship like that. Don't
make 1t Il national issue, they say
let us make it local issue, and
when you get to local issue you
will see it. A gang of these old moss
backs sitting around and whiting OH white
pine and considering how to save the liber.
ties of the nation and protect the liberties of
the people. / know them. Go up to one of
them and say to him, colonel judge, major,
about pllhibilion, don't you see how
whisky is drenehing our county or city; how
1t Is keeping the courts to run the greater
part OF the year; taking men away from the
carpenter bench, mercantile office, banks
and railroad 10 try criminals?
TERRIBLE HAvAeEs
1t is making in this community and don't
you think it would be wiser and better and
more human and Christian policy to stop
these ravages Mt once by prohibition. No.
no. no: don't talk about prohibition TO me.
Why notg ut tdestroys personal iiberty'' And
the cid hound, he never has had n breath of
personal liberty since he went into politics
and sold out to the saloons. Applause If
you would just take him out behind
some har-room and pull down his collar
You could see where the saloon collar and
and the chains of the devil had wore the hair
off his neck-juSt like off n darkey's dog
Then you talk about liberty. Better get a
little liberty before he talks about it. Find
out what it is like. Another crowd says:
Must not have prohibition, because that is
a sumptuary law; 1t Is against the policy and
genius of our institutions to pass a stimptu
airy law" Especially hear some old
rp6-nOSn1 hnll. haOI npmparot- q IA
that way. Old Democrats down in
Kentucky that live and breathe on whisky
passed platform yesterday in which they
said they thought there was enough laws of
general application, and local effect on the
laws of the statute books of the country
already. Fixed it up so nobody would
understand what they gained; but the bar
keepers understand. Too many laws on the
statute books already having local effect
Yes, on the breweries and
DISTILLERIEs OF KENTUCKY.
Thank God that argument can't be used
any more i'll Minnesota, Georgia nor Ken
lucky nor anywhere else, for the congress Of
the United States with Republican votes in
the senate and Democratic votes in the house.
passed last session the only genuine, thor
ough-bred sumptuary law ever passed, and a
Democratic president signed it. and the whole
country said hurrah. That was the oleomar-
garine law. lClapping and applause Every
body said it was all right. Why? Because
they said we need protection. Our health,
our bodies need protection from bogus but
ter; and we need national law to protect us
from bogus butter. And they passed the
sumptuary law and the whole country ap-
plauded it. My only objection. to their be-
ginning on sumptuary legislation was that
they began on butter instead of beer and
brandy and whisky I!wilf tell you what is
the matter. am not so mich afraid about
oleomargarinc: can stand II to be fooled by
the butter. l can better afford to be choked
to death ON axle grease even than to be
drnn phpI fO 6paib m Ipnnr hprn in,
Ohio last summer L run across a big
contingent of these brothers from
Germany. They had organized a
bund fur recht und freiheit. l said what is
that? They said that is an association we
have got up for our own protection. / said
aint much on Dutch, but used to be n pho
nographer and that sounds to ME as if twas
a league for human wreckage and free hell in
this country. They said: ''No, n league for
right and freedom l said: "What rights
are you deprived Of and what freedom you
don't enjoy that we Americans don't enjoy:
where have you been pinched? We find it
protection and we have platform. And
when they hauled it out il had two blanks.
Opposition to all whisky legislation, and the
other opposition to all the
SUNDAY LEGISLATION.
See how those two planks fit? Go right
along together like they were tongued and
grooved. / have. never seen the Christian
Sabbath in danger anywhere in this country,
except from this beer guzzling, whisky drink
ing crowd. Let me give you another truth
that IL true as anything short Of the word of
God itself, and that is If you Americans ever
expect to maintain the integrity of our Sab
bath, we have got to do away with liquor and
its devotees in this country. They said:
You have got your notions over here
in America all wrong, all tangled
up. told them, You needn't have come if
you hadn't wanted to. lApplause.i And if
you can have it any straighter than that back
home. The ShlDS going loV XnIIr
talk about STRENGTHENING us out on this sub
lect in order TINT you may have free whisky
and make general debauched holiday out
of our Sabbath, reminds me of the drunken
Dutchman who heard Il lot of boys practicing
for the formation of brass band. They had
got lot of horns together, and that was their
first practice night and if any of you have ever
lived anywhere within ten blocks of such a
practice party you know what that means.
They were blowing away with all their might
and main. He heard them, and he had some
music in his soul and plenty of beer in his
stomach. He concluded he would go up and
of that place and said: ''Dees is we're goll'y,
got de brass pand, aint it, They said: Yes.
what you wantg dink gone ub and Join
dot pand. They said: Are you n musician?
in der town. They asked him what piece he
could play on. Anyding vot you got; yust
try me out, play anything. They brought
out one of these
Big BASS INSTRUMENTS
with hundred crooks in it, and section pis-
tons on the side and four feet high, and said
can you play that? my yriend, L tell you
yust vats der matter; if I feel pervectly
healthy yust put dot horn to my mouth and
laughter.l 1 told them down there and tell
you here when it comes to you fellows trying
to straighten ms out on that line, you have
got to be little healthier and have little
0rbs1 wind aIS before s,ysss yGu do %. il More
personal liberty. This is % coun.
try where personal liberty is reg
ulated by law, and where some regard is yet
ligion of Jesus Christ. And, brother, if YOU
are to maintain it and improve it and bring it
back to the old, landmarks, we had better be
up up and doing, IN order that Itheg may not at
your personal liberty is i'm danger because
you would have to give up. drinking, lying.
ennrsing en- and gambling if you Joined
not Ry Know e bery 4at nan Il he wGua saa
it coming down the Mississippi river
with red flag on it. He is liar He is the
servant of corruption; doing the devils
work Ii who is his Swat, father Another class of
go and join the church for; twill take away
great deal of your personal liberty; why
make a profession of Jesus Christ? You
don't know anything ahout Christ and are
just giving yourself into the hands of a lot of
fanatical religionists and giving up your lib
erty and manhood" You have heard them
talk that way. They say: "Come over
and an Join our lodge" You say, what
lodge for? ''Oh, we have fellowship and
love and truth; if man will just be in fell
lowship and love and truth with all men he
will be just as good as any man claiming to
our Masonic lodge; if you will stick to the
PRINCIPLES OF MASONRY
you will be one one of the best men in the
country, and carrying forward the principles
of Jesus Christ almost as perfectly, and prob
ably with more liberty and more evidence of
manhood than if you was Christian"
Another says: ''Join the Knights of Pythias;
there we have friendship and benevo-
lpDce and chorifyn - And 'sn tba,- yo We